- Peringuey's Leaf-toed Gecko
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Peringuey's Leaf-toed Gecko Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Gekkonidae Genus: Cryptactites
Bauer et al., 1997Species: C. peringueyi Binomial name Cryptactites peringueyi
(Boulenger, 1910)Synonyms Phyllodactylus peringueyi Boulenger, 1910
Peringuey's leaf-toed gecko, Cryptactites peringueyi, is a species of gecko. It is particularly tiny, not growing more than about 5 centimetres (2.0 in), making it the smallest lizard in the region, along with the Striped Dwarf Leaf-toed Gecko of the Western Cape. It has a red-brown body sometimes with thin, pale dark stripes. This leaf-toed gecko is nocturnal and lives in matted marsh vegetation where it lays two minute eggs in summer.
It is endemic to South Africa, being restricted to a few saltmarshes in the Eastern Cape. It was believed to be extinct for a long time, but a tiny population was rediscovered in 1992 by the estuary of the Kromme river.
References
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Cryptactites peringueyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41229. Retrieved July 28, 2007.
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